About the Book
The Alcoholism & Addiction Cure by Chris Prentiss
In book stores Nationwide Nov. 1, 2005
Within the covers of this book, I will show
you how you can cure your alcoholism or addiction. Here, at the outset, I want
you to notice that I do not mince words. I do not say “however,” “maybe,”
“although,” “perhaps,” or use other qualifying terms or conditions. By reading
this book, you will learn how to cure your alcoholism or addiction.
That statement is based on the results we achieve at Passages in Malibu, California, the world’s most effective center for the treatment of substance abuse, where our success rate at the time of this writing is 84.4 percent.
In 1956, the American Medical Association (AMA) named alcoholism as a disease. Throughout the world today, the existing primary paradigm regarding alcoholism and addiction is not only that they are diseases, but also that they are incurable. We’re told that even if we were to stop abusing substances, the disease would continue and we would be addicts or alcoholics forever. It is that belief that is primarily responsible for the stagnation that has existed for the past seventy years or so in the treatment of alcoholism and addiction. It is that paradigm that has given birth to those two terrible, and untrue, slogans “Once an alcoholic or addict, always an alcoholic or addict” and “Relapse is part of recovery.”
It is my intention to change that paradigm in your mind, and perhaps throughout the world. Innovators in any field who have brought about revolutionary changes report that longstanding paradigms are exceedingly difficult to eradicate and replace with new paradigms. However, eradicate and replace we must if we are to survive.
Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components—anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain. You will be reading later about the steps to recovery that address these causes, but foundational to them all is this key premise: when the underlying problems are discovered and cured, the need for alcohol or drugs disappears.
I would like to see the word alcoholism eliminated from the English language as well as the labels alcoholic and addict. There is a stigma attached to them. The word alcoholism alone has a whole world of grim meaning attached to it. We’ve been inundated with studies of alcoholism, theories about alcoholism, lectures about alcoholism, stories of alcoholism, and essays on alcoholism, when all that has really happened is that people have become dependent on alcohol to cope with their underlying conditions.
Alcohol is just a quick and easy way to change ordinary, everyday reality from unbearable to bearable. All it takes is a short trip to the liquor store and a few drinks. People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating “alcoholism” as if it is the problem, when it has nothing at all to do with the problem. They might as well be studying “scratchism” for people who have a chronic itch.
Reading this book will open your mind to new ways of thinking that will cause you to see your dependency, and perhaps your entire life, in a whole new light. It will help you understand that all dependency is a symptom, not a problem. Seeing your dependency in that new light will enable you to heal yourself more quickly and more effectively than ever before—and permanently. Alcohol actually scars your liver. Since the liver cannot feel that type of pain, we can literally drink ourselves to death. It is never a pretty death, because we are slowly poisoned by the toxins our livers can no longer filter out. If your liver could feel that type of pain, you would never consume your second drink.
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